June 2007

Three months after the release of Seam 1.2.1, Seam 2.0 has been released as beta. . Seam is an application framework for Java EE 5.0 the ties together many Java EE frameworks, such as EJB3, JSF, jBPM, JBoss Rules (Drools), and iText. Seam's stateful design allows those frameworks to interact with each other in ways that simplify the development of a variety of enterprise applications

May 2007

Real Object Oriented (ROO) is both an architectural approach and a framework with code generation. ROO uses 4 (UI, middle-tier, domain model and persistence) layers instead of 3. Most of of the code is in the domain model. In the persistence layer, most DAOs only differ in finder methods. Rather than DAOs, "Repositories" (from DDD) are used.